Welcome from the central valley of CA.
I do Victorian doll houses every couple of years and give them to little girls. I have one in production now (very slow on this, it's some years old) and spend a little time between sewing gluing on wooden coffee stirrers for clap boards.
I am making a small large rug for the front room of it, I think using a template for an octagon in bright colors would be neat. Probably have to do it mainly by hand, after all the Christmas madness is over.